It depends how important the tab bar feature is to you. Firefox has pretty much every other feature you've listed there and would be my recommendation. Otherwise, Vivaldi has all of the functionality but isn't FOSS and is potentially less private. It would still be a lot better than Samsung Internet in those areas, though.
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It depends how important the tab bar feature is to you
Well, it's very handy I'd say, and more effective than tab switcher
Firefox has pretty much every other feature you've listed there
To quit in Firefox I have to tap to open a menu, then scroll down twice, then tap "quit". Samsung Internet let me place the quit button on the main bar so it's instantaneous. I figure I could do without this as I'm actually not quitting that often
Vivaldi has all of the functionality but isn't FOSS and is potentially less private. It would still be a lot better than Samsung Internet in those areas, though
Yeah Vivaldi is the closest one to Samsung's experience. But still tap and scroll for the quit button, and the adblocker (with uBlock and adguard filters) doesn't seem as effective as those in Samsung Internet.
I might be settling for Fennec eventually, as the uBlock extension is probably better than any feature in Vivaldi. I wish there was a browser that had it all, but none yet!
Oh I haven't tried those two yet. Thanks for the links!
Both Firefox and Vivaldi are far superior to "Samsung Internet". Nobody should use that crap, ever.
I think the best you're gonna get is Firefox. It has the vast majority of the features you list.
It's going to be pretty much the same experience as Fennec though, which OP said they've tried extensively but didn't like
Yeah. But what else is there?
I've been trying out the DuckDuckGo browser for the last week or so and it's doing the job. Of your list, it doesn't have a tab bar, but it checks the other boxes well enough, I think. I do really miss the reader mode button in Firefox. And generally the ability to use extensions.